John Ernst Steinbeck Famous Quotes
"There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say."
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
"Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do."
John Ernst Steinbeck Quotations
"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top."
Saskya Pandita
"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
Al Franken
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today."
William Allen White
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist Proverb
Half this game is 90 mental.
Yogi Berra
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
Tancred
Why be a man when you can be a success
Bertolt Brecht